Improvement in combined washing and wringing machine



T. J. BALDWIN. Combined Washing and wringing Machine.

No.- 222,438. Patented Dec. 9, I879.

WITNESSES INVENTOR m /2/2Wz@ gypuiw/f/ BY f w ATTORNEYS.

N-PETERS, FNOTD-LITHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS J. BALDWIN, OF PACIFIC, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT INCOMBINED WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Ila 222,438, dated December 9, 1879 application filed September 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. BALDWIN, of Pacific, in the county of Franklin and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Combined. Washing and Wringing Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved washing-machine combined with a clothes-wringer, which shall be simple in construction and elfective and convenient in use.

The invention consists of a box for receiving the clothes, provided with a lid, which is secured by means of an eccentric bar and lever and rings, this box being supported between two standards and rotated by a crank, the shaft of which passes through one of the rollers of a clothes-wringer, mounted on the frame of the machine, and provided with a lever for regulating the pressure.

. The box contains anumber of wooden balls,

which are thrown about during the revolutions of the box, and pound and wash the clothes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section of the washing-maa packing, F, of india-rubber, or some other suitable material, and with two cross-bars, G G.

Rings H H are attached to two opposite sides I of the box by means of metal strips I I, or in some OlZhGliSLllUEtblB manner. A round bar,

J, provided with a circular eccentric projection, K, at-each end, with two wide grooves,

L L, corresponding to the bars G G, and with a lever-bar, M, rests on the cross-bars G G in such a manner that the circular eccentric projections K K pass into the rings H H.

The box A is rotated by the crank N, the

the shaft N of which passes through the I roller 0, and is attached thereto. The roller P is directly above roller 0, and is hung in a frame, Q, adapted to slide up and down between the standards Band C, and which is attached, by means of the bar R, to the le ver S, pivoted on a rod, T, supported by the arms U U.

An inclined drip-board, V, is fastened to the standards D and 0 below the rollers O and P. A pin, W, suspended from the standard B, is passed through this standard into the box when the same is to remain stationary.

The operation is as follows: The clothes are placed into the box with a number of wooden balls, Y Y, the latter being thoroughly dis tributed among the former. The lidE is then placed onto the box, and the bar J is placed onto the lid, the projections K Kpassing into the rings H H. .If the lever M is turned in the direction of the arrow 00 the small eccentric projections K K will-press against the top of the ring, and thus press the bar J onto the cross-bars G G with great power, and keep the lid closed. By reversing the movement of the lever M the projections will leave the upper part of the ring, and permit of taking part J off the lid. If the box is rotated the wooden .balls will be thrown against. the clothes with considerable force, and by pounding and. beating them and by agitating the water they wash the clothes. AS soon as the clothes are washed they are passed between the two rollers O and P, which can be placed nearer or farther apart by raising or lowering the levers. The drip-water is carried off by the inclined drip-board.

It is a great convenience to have the washin g-machine and wringer united, for the clothes need not be transported from one tub to the other; the floor is not soiled by the transportation from one machine to the other; and, as some clothes can be washed and others wrung at the same time and by one and the same action, it is evident that the above-described machine is useful and practical.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters' Patent, is-

The combination of the clothes-box A, the shaft N, and the rollers O and P, the box and roller 0 being both mounted on the shaft, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

THOMAS JEFFERSON BALDWIN.

Witnesses:

= WILLIAM J. DUNN,

CONRAD B. HAcKER. 

